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How has FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
904
Elementary
DISTRICT 789 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361116000885
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL
2 LARCH AVE, FLORAL PARK, NY 11001 · (516) 434-2751 · Nassau County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL904 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
141 students
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 81 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 122 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 121 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 113 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 112 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 135 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 113 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (122) is 8% larger than its 6th grade class (113).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
79.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +20.0pp since 2023
Math
79.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 75.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
72.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL's state test result (72.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL this school | 904 | 15.6% | 72.4% |
| CONCORD ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ARDSLEY | 780 | 9.1% | 79.3% |
| SAW MILL ROAD SCHOOL NORTH BELLMORE | 700 | 18.7% | 58.3% |
| SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DIX HILLS | 672 | 20.1% | 65.9% |
| BATTERY PARK CITY SCHOOL NEW YORK | 797 | 22.6% | 82.7% |
| WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL FRANKLIN SQUARE | 782 | 23.0% | 53.4% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.4% | #319 of 2,335 | #65 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #380 of 2,342 ▲ 48 | #67 of 172 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #273 of 2,343 ▲ 267 | #43 of 172 ▲ 38 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 904 | #78 of 2,585 | #1 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #2,122 of 2,338 | #173 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.8% | #569 of 2,388 | #55 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.6% | #2,332 of 2,534 | #133 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.0% | #506 of 606 | #60 of 70 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
904
+58 (+7%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 944
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 904 | 57.7 | 15.7:1 | 16% (141) |
| 2023-24 | 879 | 57 | 15.4:1 | 14% (119) |
| 2022-23 | 893 | 60.8 | 14.7:1 | 12% (104) |
| 2020-21 | 846 | 61 | 13.9:1 | 9% (77) |
| 2017-18 | 886 | 64 | 13.8:1 | 10% (91) |
| 2015-16 | 853 | 53 | 16.1:1 | 12% (99) |
| 2010-11 | 959 | 66 | 14.5:1 | 8% (73) |
| 2000-01 | 1,026 | 59 | 17.4:1 | 4% (42) |
| 1990-91 | 944 | 53 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL.
About FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL
FLORAL PARK, New York, is home to FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL, a large elementary school. It enrolled 904 students in pre-K through 6 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 104% higher than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL. It has 2 schools and 1,578 students.
Roughly 54% of students at FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 21% Asian, 17% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. That is close to the 57% White share among all Nassau County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 63% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its 57.7 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 15.7:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school's lunch program data list 16% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is below the 31% average among public schools in Nassau County.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL scores 72.4% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 69.3%.
Among Nassau County residents, the median household income is $146,202, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Besides FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL, Nassau County has 314 other public schools.
PS/IS 295 is located about 0.6 miles from FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL is 2nd of 8 on proficiency.
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 904 students in 2024-25, 58 more than the 846 it had in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio rising from 13.9:1 to 15.7:1.
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Nassau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,389,591
Census ACS
Median income
$146,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
315
200,775 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOLElementary · 674 students
Other schools in FLORAL PARK
- SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,572 students
- FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,308 students
- IRWIN ALTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL 172Middle · 799 students
- JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOLElementary · 674 students
- JAMES J AMBROSE SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 659 students
- PS 993Combined · 636 students
Nearby schools
- PS/IS 2950.6 mi · 562
- FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,308
- PS 133 THE BELLEROSE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE0.8 mi · 596
- PS 33 EDWARD M FUNK0.9 mi · 735
- JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL1.0 mi · 674
- PS 18 WINCHESTER1.0 mi · 425
Frequently asked questions
About FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOLHow large is FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL?
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 904 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL serve?
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL have?
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL employs 58 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1.
How diverse is FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL?
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL reports a student body of 54% White, 17% Hispanic, 1% Black, 21% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL?
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL is overseen by FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
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